Historic Baptist Church (1857 - 1898) by theemperor84
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Description
Built in 1857 this Baptist Church burned down in 1898. It became my project to "rebuild" a "scale" model of this church from the single known photo in existence. The reason for the differences in the photo and the render is that the church was moved down the street in the 1870's where this photo was later taken. I have rendered it as it would have appeared in it's original location.
After several revisions the model was finally finished in early 2005 after more than two years of off and on work. This final version (the last of about 8 spanning all the way back to the original Bryce version) is the final end product of all my hard work. I hope you all enjoy it, feedback always welcome so if you can spare a few minutes and write something that would be great.
Comments (6)
Elentor
First off, the model really sounds identical to the reference picture. Congratulations on the acchievement. Two years sound a bit too much for this.. have you done the interiors too? If not, you really should move to a different program, like AutoCAD or Rhinoceros to design buildings (which is what I do) because the pipeline for this kind of work is way faster. While the modelling is really good I believe the time it took was not a good trade off, unless you play with 3D just for a hobbie very seldomly. Now, about this one here: Just add some cool lighting and some texture (shouldn't be hard because according to the reference it's very generic) and I'm sure the result will be very cool. Keep up the work.
virtuallyhistorical
Hi David and well done, although I do agree with much of what Elentor says. Is it untextured because you're going to put it up as a model for sale at such places as TurboSquid? It would be great to see it textured and lit.
theemperor84
Hey guys, thanks for the feed back. The reason it took me so long is because I'm a perfectionist, a college student, and because working is Cinema isn't more than a hobby. All in all the final building of the final model only took me about 24 hours. It's just that the prep work took me a long time. Once I knew what I was doing, everything went smoothly. This is the textured version, but the lighting doesn't really do it justice. This model will not be sold.
kenmo
Very nice work...
arrogant
i would not put up anything like this here. you must be joking. why don't you use textures instead of polygons?
chachi
i think the modeling is great. try not to look at this as an art piece, instead an architectual representation of a real building. excellent job. maybe add some stained glass windows and your own textures just for fun? ;)